Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 12:05:23 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root directory filling up... Message-ID: <41BC8863.3080403@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <000001c4e052$8a046360$9900000a@ZGISH> References: <000001c4e052$8a046360$9900000a@ZGISH>
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Kiffin Gish wrote: >I recently decided to dump windows and take a much deserved breather with >FreeBSD. So I installed 5.3 and was in for a real treat! > > Great!, I too have finally switched my main workstation (about 1 month ago) from Win2K to FreeBSD 5.3, at the console I feel at home (was a DOS guy before windows) but I feel like a fish out of water with gnome/kde/xfce, Is there anything that emulates the feel of the Win2K wiget set (not XP, ick) and Windows Explorer File Manager?, also, I miss my Winamp 5 (loved the Internet Radio part the of Media Library and I used Explorers List view to manage my music), XMMS, Rhythmbox, and Nautilus just don't do it for me. >However, I created a /-directory with 4G and installed the complete ports >stuff from the CD. Now my root directory is almost filled up (after I >installed all the Gnome Desktop stuff). > >I always do a make clean. Is there an easier way to only keep the ports >stuff that is 'really' required? > > use "portsclean -CDD" you need to have portupdate installed as this is a tool of that package, you could also try the -L and -P flags for more cleaning (read the man page before using these flags). >I noticed that there are tons of tarballs etc. in the /usr/ports/distfiles >directory. Is it safe to delete all of these? > > Again, "portsclean -CDD with purge all the tarballs that arn't used / installed but you could delete everthing in there if your really short on space. >Are there any other suggestions to keep my root directory from filling up? > > >
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